Green labelling of food to show the impact of its production on the environment could lead to major changes in consumption, Lucy Neville-Rolfe of British retailer Tesco said on Tuesday.

The European Commission slashed Poland’s proposed limit on carbon dioxide (CO2) emission permits for 2008-2012 by more than a quarter on Monday, setting up a battle with Warsaw over its plan to fight climate change.

The European Union executive also cut the Czech Republic’s proposed cap by 14.8 percent, while it accepted the emissions limits proposed by France.

Scientists from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are meeting in Brussels this week to chart the consequences of global warming on populations and ecosystems worldwide and agree possible measures to tackle it.

Melting glaciers, rising sea levels, heatwaves, droughts – the effects of rising global temperatures are already widely felt around the world.

But the poorest nations are set to suffer more, and are the least prepared to cope with the expected consequences, climate scientists will warn on 6 April 2007.

In a defeat for the Bush administration, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday that a US government agency has the power under the clean air law to regulate greenhouse gas emissions that spur global warming.

The nation’s highest court by a 5-4 vote said the US Environmental Protection Agency “has offered no reasoned explanation” for its refusal to regulate carbon dioxide and other emissions from new cars and trucks that contribute to climate change.

COPENHAGEN – Completion of European deals to trade carbon credits under the Kyoto Protocol will have to wait several more months as countries do not yet have UN approval to trade, a European Commission official said on Wednesday.

Spiked, an online magazine for the truly right wing, is fretting that children are losing sleep over the threat of global warming. Others may think that worrying about an impending catastrophe is a perfectly natural reaction.